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Gordon Grice
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Random House Usa Inc
Published
March 1999
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Gordon Grice
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Publisher
Random House Usa Inc
Published
March 1999
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Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home.
Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live." Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil.
Author
Gordon Grice
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Random House Usa Inc
Published
March 1999
Weight
221g
Dimensions
140 x 216 x 15 mm
ISBN
9780385318907
ISBN-10
0385318901
Eden Code
6523450
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Author/Creator: Gordon Grice
ISBN: 9780385318907
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Release Date: March 1999
Weight: 221g
Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Eden Code: 6523450